To further clarify my points earlier about bad faith usage of accusations of antisemitism. I believe that calling people who are not antisemitic i.e. Greta Thunberg, does harm indirectly towards Jewish population because it bleaches the meaning of the word by applying it to cases where a person is not being antisemitic. It also reduces it to a political insult or attack on someone’s person when used in that context.

This is very bad because antisemitism is a real problem these days that many people actually face. And sometimes they face violence because of it. But misuse of the term without merit as an insult or to shut people down can cause people to not recognize it as easily, or lose respect for it. If the meaning of a word erodes or becomes charged people may not take it seriously, and that’s a problem. It’s especially a problem considering how serious antisemitism is.

I’m not even the only one who thinks this either, I brought sources (I know no one will read these but they’re here if you’re actually smart):

I drafted the definition of antisemitism. Rightwing Jews are weaponizing it

[Video] He Wrote a Definition of Antisemitism; Now He Says It’s Being Weaponized

From Ambiguity to Accountability: The Case for a Legal Definition of Antisemitism in Academiaof Antisemitism in Academia

How a Leading Definition of Antisemitism Has Been Weaponized Against Israel’s Critics

These cover how current definitions of antisemitism are weaponized as a political tool, they don’t cover so much bleaching of words. That study hasn’t been done on antisemitism but it has been done on other words. And antisemitism is a word, so these apply to it:

Diachronic Word Embeddings Reveal Statistical Laws of Semantic Change

Words are Malleable: Computing Semantic Shifts in Political and Media Discourse

Slangvolution: A Causal Analysis of Semantic Change and Frequency Dynamics in Slang

The Politics of Language: Politicized Semantic Change, Pejoration and the Case of “Woke”

Words change, and how we use them shapes how. Using words that have important deep meaning and power to hurt others without merit will change those words, it changes how they are seen, and it changes how people will react to them. And no word is immune to this. Actually words that carry extreme charge are even more victim to this.